Witter Bynner Quotes
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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Family comes out whenever we know it's gonna be steady on a run that's continuous.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
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When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.
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Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.
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I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.
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I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
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What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual.
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What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.
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I was a comic book nut. For real. I still have a collection in my closet.
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A robust democracy requires active participation.
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Nothing like tailgating on the Bayou. LSU is my personal favorite. Maybe it's my penchant for the spicy stuff. But there's nothing like sampling a little gumbo, a little jambalaya and then diving face-first in to a shrimp boil. The aroma just walking through the parking lot of Tiger Stadium stays with you the whole day, and the LSU fans get there early and stay late.
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I think my biggest mistake was deciding not to go to law school directly after I graduated from college.
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In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.
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If you have played "six times wrong, one time right" the problem is not quite corrected.
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The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
